About a year after the first rental station was installed at Burnham Brook Community Center, another B-cycle station was set up over the weekend in the Riverwalk Centre parking lot at 34 W. Jackson St. When the installation is complete, the station will have spaces for four bikes with additional spots for returning rentals from the other station.

New stations can cost about $20,000. This one is mostly funded by the Calhoun County Visitors Bureau with the help of the Battle Creek Community Foundation. It also is sponsored by Arcadia Brewing Co. and Heritage Chevrolet.

After paying a $5 fee for a 24-hour membership, riders can use one of the bikes at no charge for the first hour. The cost is $1 for every half-hour thereafter.

"We wanted to have it close to the festival park," said Linda Freybler, CEO of the visitors bureau. "For visitors, a lot of people come through downtown, so we thought it would be a pretty central location — also for people who stay at McCamly (Plaza Hotel) and walk through the Riverwalk area."

Angela Myers, Choose Health program manager at the foundation, said additional partners are being sought for more stations. In the meantime, she said, they hope the latest station will "keep the momentum going."

"We're hoping it continues that message of creating healthy communities," she said.

B-cycle's bike-sharing system operates in 24 cities around the world, according to its website. The company says it's the only such program that measures the distance traveled on each ride and keeps track of the calories burned and carbon emissions prevented.

As at the first station, the Team Active bike shop will take care of maintaining the bicycles, including weekly routine checks. Owner Mike Wood said having a second station will help make the program even more successful and is "one more piece of that puzzle" on the way to a health-focused attitude in Battle Creek.

"If you look at any thriving city," he said, "and we always think of New York and Chicago and anything like that, one of their crown jewels and everyone that speaks to, is their bike-share program. Now, obviously, we're not a New York or a Chicago, but we're progressive and going back to our roots of a health-minded community."